Advantages

OUR PEOPLE: Our personnel are known experts in their relative fields and always act to undertake programs in the most cost-effective manner possible while meeting or exceeding established safety requirements and industry standards.  Not bogged-down by large-firm processes we have an extremely lean overhead structure that ultimately benefits our clients by leaving these dollars in on-site project activities. 

OUR PARTNERS: We have solid teaming partners and subcontractors who know how to complete their tasks on-time, under accelerated schedules, and within specified budgets. SWP provides a “complete” team to address your project needs.

Speed and thrift
in awarding contracts.

The government’s contracting officers are faced with declining budgets and a growing backlog of contracts that those budgets are to support. Consequently, they require both speed and thrift in awarding contracts to qualified vendors. But, the cost of awarding a contract through competitive bidding can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars and take up to nine months to complete. By contrast, a single-source, direct award to an Alaska native corporation 8(a) typically costs a fraction of that amount and often can be completed in 4-6 weeks.

Ensuring competitive Overhead and
General & Administrative cost rates.

Because Alaska native corporations such as SWP are large enough and efficient enough to ensure competitive overhead and general & administrative cost rates, the contracting officer risks little in that regard. And, by using the ALPHA contracting model, the government and its contractor develop a transparent relationship wherein the contracting officer is virtually guaranteed the ability to negotiate a fair and reasonable price with few of the uncertainties associated with the competitive bidding process.

The Direct Award process, properly executed, can be an exceptionally cost-effective and operationally-efficient alternative to competitive acquisition.

Small Business Utilization and
Incentive Rebates of up to 5% of the total contract value

Direct awards to Alaska native corporation 8(a) participants such as SWP generally cannot be protested {13CFR124.517(a)}. Against the extended delays resulting from protests to hotly-contested awards, this advantage alone can save a  contracting officer many weeks of uncertainty before project start-up. Awards by U.S. government activities or prime contractors to Alaska native corporations such as SWP may be eligible for Incentive Rebates of up to 5% of the total contract value, under the Indian Incentive Program {FAR 26.1}. Also, a contract or sub-contract with SWP helps a contracting officer or prime contractor meet its mandatory small business utilization requirement.